Recently, Apple provided a preview of things to come in their highly-anticipated system update called Mac OS 10.7 also known as OSX Lion and after I got past the highlighted features such as the Mac App Store, Flick & Swipe Touch interactions (instead of Point & Click ), Launchpad, etc., I saw a screenshot of a Macbook Air displaying an application window and I noticed a basic design element, the Title Bar is no where…

Whether you're a designer, a programmer or a hybrid, you need to work in a way that makes easier on members of your team. This comes from Martin Fowler's book Refactoring:

"There is another user of your source code. Someone will try to read your code in a few month's' time to make some changes. We easily forget that extra user of the code, yet that user is actually the most important. Who cares if the computer…

I was just visiting New York City during this week's blizzard with my wife and two young children. We knew there would be some travel issues getting back to Philly, but we were taking an Amtrak train (rather than driving), already had tickets in hand, and felt pretty comfortable that the situation wouldn't be too bad.

Of course, my wife and I have iPhones so we knew we could check the status of the train…

I’m preparing a conference session about how rich interactivity changes UX methods, processes, and best practices. I thought I’d be on top of it all, but then I got a new smart phone. It’s a Samsung Galaxy S and I like it a lot, especially that it runs on Android. Being a state-of-the-art smart phone it has advanced touch features and rich interactivity.

I didn’t read the manual. Setting up the basics…